The advent of ‘green capitalism’ (such as it is), rather, is the result principally of government support helping to make clean energy a business that is just about sufficiently profitable to attract investment, combined with a certain willingness in some capitalist quarters to accept lower returns, either in the expectation that green profits will eventually be substantially forthcoming, and thus that there is long-term economic value in establishing first-mover advantage and market leadership, or – whisper it – in the service of delivering the use value of greenness.
